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Benefit today for Lathrop surveillance camera project
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LATHROP – The Mexican-style fiesta and Mexican food buffet extravaganza to raise money for Lathrop Elementary School’s surveillance cameras is taking place today from noon to 6 p.m. Tickets to the event, called Spring King and Queen Fiesta & Mexican-American food buffet, is just a donation of $1 at the door. It’s being held at the school’s multipurpose building at the corner of Fifth and O streets next door to the school.Each grade level will have a king and queen selected based on the number of tickets sold. Coronation will be held between 3 and 3:30 p.m. today.The fund-raiser is a project of the students’ parents who were looking for a way to help raise the additional $27,000 that is needed to complete the installation of the school’s surveillance cameras.